Continuous Communal or sectorial conflicts are precursor of civil war : An analysis in special context to India 

12 Apr Continuous Communal or sectorial conflicts are precursor of civil war : An analysis in special context to India 

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Context : Recently it has been observed that communal conflict/riots have erupted in some regions of India on the occasion of the Ram Navmi . Some followers of Hinduism were rallying with flutering sword and Trishul in front of the Muslim dominated areas and raising the slogan of provoking Muslims for violence . In this communal riots , in some places Curfew has to imposed or section 144 of CrPc has to impose.

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Introduction : 

• Communal Conflict is not new for India . For several years , it has been observed in continuity, somewhere in the form of dressing dispute, somewhere in the form of eating dispute, somewhere in the form of hate speeches. These incidents , however, are  small and localized in their nature but through social media, their issues have been made national. 
• For the political benefits , some political parties are endorsing these types of communal debates and the communal conflicts because in this way these political parties can polarize the votes . But they should think that these small communal issues would be converted into civil war. Everywhere in the world , the emergence of the civil war was not a sudden incident. These civil wars had erupted in the atmosphere of insecurity from the majority people. Today Current Affairs
  
• Therefore , for the power and survival , these minority communities picked the arms and to counter it , the majority community picked arms because of their government (Government is always from the majority community in democratic states. Because democracy is the number game ) In this way , generally civil war erupts . And there are many examples in the history of those countries where civil war erupts , either the country disintegrates or the country collapses . (Several examples of African countries, North American countries. In however, in American civil war America was almost disintegrated but Lincoln saved America. )
• Therefore this must be understood by the people of any diversified country that communal violence would be harmful for them in every means . This is the duty and obligation of every responsible citizen of the country to crucially solve all the possibilities of the communal conflict. They should clearly identifies the factors responsible for the communal conflict and eliminate those factors 

Communal Conflict / Sectoral Conflict : The Hindu Analysis

• Communal conflict is a violent conflict between two different ethnic groups or two different religious group. In primitive stage of the society there was no concept of the communal conflict but as the society developed, the diversified interest and the cultures developed and when the effort was done by powerful and majority community  to bring another community or minority community under its subjugation , the communal conflict emerged in the world 
• If we see the history of India , there was no evidence of any type of communal conflict before the British arrival . In fact , the accommodation of all the cultural value system has been the unique characteristics of Hindu culture for long time , therefore , in ancient India ,communal violence and sectoral violence are completely absent (Some evidence of genocide by Harshvardha of Brahmans but this is also subject of debate and may be political influenced ) . In Muslim period, rare evidences of communal conflict is there . Communal harmony was disturbed by the British through using Divide and Rule policy. Today Current Affairs
  
• This must be noted that Communal violence can never be started by minorities until or unless they do not feel insecurity or they do not feel its necessity for their survival. In other words, without provocation by the majority or powerful sect , minority or weaker sect or deprived sect can never initiate communal conflict . Therefore this is the duty of the majority or powerful sect to prevent their country from communal conflict and further disaster . 

Civil War : The Hindu Analysis

• Civil war is a type of war between two or  more organized groups within the state . Here two things must be noted – “Within state ” and “Organized group”. This is the duty of the state. These groups should be controlled or vanished, which is being formed for aggressive means . State should not encourage any form of extremist groups in the country otherwise civil war is inevitable . 
• Another reason for the civil war is economical conflict . If the money would be centralized in a few hands and the economic condition of any country collapsed , then civil war would erupt . Therefore the Government must ensure distribution of the production in a justified way. Government should prevent the country from economic crises . 
• In America, the basic reason for the Civil war was the economical conflict . Therefore huge economical diversity could be one cause of the civil war. Government should stop the exploitation of the lowest class people by the capitalist class and powerful class 
• In a multicultural country , the possibility of civil war is greater than in any monochromatic country . Therefore the nationalistic elements must be created and government should try to detach itself from any religious or sectorial activities . Government should encourage only those elements which would be accepted by all the community/class and race. Just like Asoka’s Dhamma 
• Government Should encourage the democratic value system, impartial judiciary , free media and freedom of religious practices (Under the law ). Here it should be noted that minorities should be privileged from some other right so that they could not feel insecurity and inferiority . It is the duty of all the patriot persons that they should work for the communal harmony and should criticize any incidents which destroy the communal Harmony. Abraham Lincoln type leadership must be required to prevent any country from civil war however Abraham Lincoln had to sacrifice his life to protect his country from disintegration 

How India should be protected from these communal conflict : The Hindu Analysis

Recently we see the atmosphere of continuous hate speeches, communal conflicts. For example, Hate speeches given by some Hindu mahants (Incident of Delhi and Sitapur) , Hijab issue. Conflicts between two groups of students on the issue of non vegetarian food. Some communal incidents of the karnataka, Communal conflict in Karauli Rajasthan , Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat . There have been a number of such incidents in recent days . This should be the subject of the concern for every intellectual and the responsible person as well as the government. The following measures should be adopted in India to prevent our loving and beautiful country from communal violence 

• All the people who are communal and deliver hate speeches publically or in small groups should be completely socially and politically  boycotted at every level . If these people publicly deliver any hate speeches, they must be quickly prosecuted and should be punished . 

• All the religious heads must come forward and openly criticize such activities and must be expelled from religion . Such communal people must be declared anti religious people 

• Intellectuals , head of the educational institutions  must prohibit such people in their institution for any academic activities 

• Police , Government as well a our Judiciary should take suo moto action against such communal activities 

• Every patriots, nationalist people must boycott those political parties which are endorsing such communalism 

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Conclusion 

As per the above discussion , the issue of communal violence and hate speeches is not the ordinary issue. These are related to the integrity and unity of India . All of us must come forward to tackle the issue. We expect our government and Judicial system to take strong action against those who are destroying communal harmony . These continuous incidents definitely give birth to a fear of the civil war but this is the time to curtail these elements before it enlarges . The role of religious heads can not be ignored to tackle these issues. They should come forward and openly criticize such type of activities.

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Dr. Anshul Bajpai

Plutus IAS Current Affairs Team Member